Were inside the limo. Four died and four others were seriously injured. The driver of the suv that struck the limo, steven romeo, was charged with dwi, but prosecutors say it played no role in the crash. Perfectly sober, steven romeo could not have avoided this crash. Reporter romeo was arraigned this afternoon and the grand jury indicted pino on assault and negligent homicide charges. It is our belief that the lines here between civil liability and criminal liability have been blurred. Reporter we are pleased with the indictment, said an attorney for one of the families. The family has been devastated by this loss and wants justice in this case. End quote. Several families have filed lawsuits in this case. If hes convicted of a top count in the indictment, negligent homicide, pino could face up to four years in state prison. N. J. Burkett, channel 7 right now we want to go to breaking news on the garden state parkway where theres an accident as you can see here causing big delays. Sha
Way that could be so alarming. Its 1 of those cases to be over cautious rather than have it the other way around saying we didnt check and people are having problems because of that. Reporter here are the basics 2900 people will be warned. The key here, the dates of the surgery. This only impacts people who had surgery between august 17th of last year and january 22nd of this year. If you had surgery outside of those dates or impacted the hospital for other reasons, this does not impact you according to the hospital. Those who need to get tested will have the cost of the tests picked up for them by swedish. Swedishs it will not release the employees name right now. We know the Englewood Police department has started a criminal investigation into all of this. The chances that any of the 2900 were infected are very low but it can happen. A nursing assistant received 30 infected close to 20 patients in 2008 and 2009. Adele, she was also involved in whats known as drug diversion. I remembe
Those things to make sure you follow through with what they tell you to do because all these diseases we are talking about, if you get them they have conkwenss, the chances consequences, the chances are low but you want to make sure. 2900 patients impacted by all of this, tay started they started receiving phone calls and notifications today. Here are the dates involved, this is critical because swedish is getting a lot of phone calls from people, this only involves surgeries between august 17th of last year and january 22nd of this year. If you had surgery outside of those dates, no need to worry. If you went to the hospital during those dates for nothing for something other than a surgery, no need to worry as well. Again, the tab will be picked up by the hospital. Also important to note is you might expect all is an active criminal investigation with all Englewood Police department and the Colorado Department of health is working with swedish on how to move forward with all of this.